This is a small program to create colour schemes and palette. There's a System.Windows.Forms version as well as a GTK version, intended for Linux/BSD systems. The backend is portable to create a frontend on any .NET platform.
- Simple UI
- Cleanish-MVC design allowing for creating new interfaces, easily
- Windows frontend
- GTK frontend
- Console frontend
- Invoke like any other unix tool - one shot with parameters
- Written in F#
- And any other UI framework supporting C# or another .NET language
- Easily create colour schemes
- Variety of algorithms, easy to extend for adding more
- Organize colours into palettes
- Natively operates on GIMP palettes, imports/exports Photoshop palettes
I won't deny inspiration ;)
- Gpick - Does a lot of things, including palette management and scheme generation, (with a greater variety of options, and a wheel to see where they fit) but also previews of colours in sample usage, importing from images, and various ways to blend colours into new ones. Has a clumsy interface though. Written in C++ and Lua, GTK only.
- Color Wheel Pro - The inspiration for Agave. Multiple types of wheel options, preview templates, and Photoshop palette conversion. Seemingly unmaintained and proprietary.
- Agave - My main inspiration. Basic, but with a nice UI. Seemingly unmaintained? Written in C++, GTK only.
- Android/iOS/UWP ports: The Core library has been converted to a PCL. This means you need to wrap RgbColor to your framework's native color type like
NSColor,System.Drawing.Color,Gdk.Color, etc. - Android version: Should be possible. What likely needs to be implemented is a color picker, color well, and any glue.
- Mac version: A port using MonoMac or
Xamarin.Macshould be very feasible, due to the system having robust color GUI controls, but my only Mac is a MacMini1,1 running SL. I've taken a look in VMware and Xcode makes me want to puke. - iOS version: An iOS port for the same reasons as the Mac.
- UWP/WinRT version: A Windows 10 version IMHO is of limited usefulness, as desktop Windows 10 runs the SWF version fine, and I lack a WM10 device. On the other hand, I do have a Lumia 520 and Surface RT running and stuck on 8.1.
- Eyedropper in SWF version. The GTK version naturally has this because the native colour picker does. Portability might have been a concern, but the GTK version exists now.
- I'm not entirely happy with the UI though.
- DPI awareness in SWF version: Does this even work?
- Rebrand? - Colours is a generic name.
- To go with this, maybe an icon.
- A colour wheel would be impressive. Kuler does this.
- Alternative colour wheels for different blending beyond RGB would be nice.
- Improved colour picker in Windows Forms.
- Picking colors from images would be neat.